New Delhi: March 15, 2012

A total of 112 government websites belonging to various state government agencies including Sikkim were hacked in the three-month period ending February 2012, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.

“During the period December 2011 to February 2012, a total number of 112 government websites were hacked,” Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

These hacked websites belonged to the agencies in the government of Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim and Manipur, he added.
Over 100 Govt websites hacked in 3 months

It also included agencies of Ministry of Finance, Health, Planning Commission and Human Resource Development.

The website of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd was hacked on December 4, 2011 by the ‘H4tr!ck’ hacker group, Pilot said.

The Minister added that the number of Internet frauds involving Rs 1 lakh and above have declined over the last three years from 269 cases in 2009 to 125 cases in 2011.

“However, after taking into account the Internet frauds wherein the amount involved in individual cases is less than Rs 1 lakh, the total number of Internet frauds were 864 involving Rs 824.05 lakh, 2,232 cases involving Rs 1,234.94 lakh and 1,798 cases involving Rs 787.39 lakh for the calendar year 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively,” he said.

PTI

 

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